Surveillance Robot.

SURVEILLANCE ROBOT

MUHAMMAD BUKHARI BIN KAMAROZAMAN

This Report Is Submitted In Partial Fulfillment Of Requirements For The Bachelor Degree of Electronic Engineering (Industrial Electronic) With Honours

Fakulti Kejuruteraan Elektronik dan Kejuruteraan Komputer Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka

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"I hereby declare that this report is result of my own effort except for quotes as cited in the references"

Signature : ...

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"Hereby declare that I have read this report and in my opinion this report is sufficient in terms of scope and quality for the award of bachelor of Electronic Engineering

(Industrial Electronics) With Honours"

Signature : ... Supervisor's Name : Engr. Nur Alisa binti Ali

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Success and accomplishment of this report cannot be achieved without the support, encouragement and sacrifice of other. First and foremost, it's grateful to Allah S.W.T because with his blessing, I am able to complete this project in success.

I would like to thank and express my appreciation and gratitude to my parents and those who have been involved in contributing their precious ideas in helping me to prepare and complete this project.

Special thanks to my supervisor, Engr. Nur Alisa binti Ali, thank you for your guidance, advise, encouragement, suggestion and constructive views throughout during my final year project (FYP) period. I am absolutely grateful to the valuable knowledge that she gave to me. To all my friends, thank you for the assistance and voluntary participation in completing all required information.

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ABSTRACT

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ABSTRAK

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE

PROJECT TITLE i

DECLARATION iii

SUPERVISOR'S DECLARATION iv

DEDICATION v

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT vi

ABSTRACT vii

ABSTRAK viii

CONTENTS ix

LIST OF TABLES xiii

LIST OF FIGURES xiv

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xvi

LIST OF APPENDICES xvii

1 INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 OVERVIEW 1

1.2 PROJECT OBJECTIVE 3

1.3 SCOPE OF PROJECT 3

1.4 PROBLEM STATEMENT 4

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2 LITERATURE REVIEW 5

2.1 OVERVIEW 5

2.2 SURVEILLANCE MOBILE ROBOT 6

2.2.1 Autonomous Explorer Mobile Robot 6 2.2.2 Remote Controlled Surveillance Mobile

Robot with IP Camera 7

2.2.3 Mobile Robot based on Network Camera 8 2.2.4 Remote Control and Monitoring of an

Autonomous Mobile Robot 9 2.2.5 Wi-Fi Surveillance Robot 10

3 METHODOLOGY 12

3.1 OVERVIEW 12

3.2 PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION 13

3.2.1 Initial Design 14

3.2.1.1 GUI Console 14

3.2.1.2 Mobile Robot 16

3.2.1.3 Zigbee 17

3.2.2 Robot Base Fabrication 18 3.2.2.1 Mobile Robot Base 18

3.2.2.2 Servo Motor 19

3.2.3 Circuit Design 20

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3.2.7 Circuit Fabrication 28

3.2.8 Video Camera Installation 29 3.2.9 User Interface Development 30

3.2.10 Robot Construction 32

3.3 PROJECT SCHEDULE 32

4 RESULT AND DISCUSSIONS 33

4.1 OVERVIEW 33

4.2 CIRCUIT DEVELOPMENT 34

4.2.1 Circuit Simulation 34

4.2.1.1 Battery Level 34

4.2.1.2 Camera Angle Adjustment 35

4.2.2 Circuit Schematic 36

4.2.3 PCB Layout 39

4.2.4 Printed Circuit Board 41

4.2.5 Finishing 43

4.3 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT 44

4.3.1 PIC Microcontroller 44

4.2.1.1 Preprocessor Directive 44 4.2.1.2 Main Program 46 4.2.1.3 Function 48

4.3.2 Visual Basic 51

4.3.2.1 Login Form 51 4.3.2.2 GUI Console 52

4.4 HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT 58

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5 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 64

5.1 OVERVIEW 64

5.2 CONCLUSION 65

5.3 RECOMMENDATION 66

REFERENCES 67

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LIST OF TABLES

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3.1 Combination of two motors for robot movement 23

4.1 Table of servo motor rotation angle 36

4.2 Table of converting battery level 48

4.3 Hardware aspect consideration 60

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LIST OF FIGURES

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1.1 Overview of project system 2

2.1 Autonomous explorer mobile robot 6

2.2 RC surveillance mobile robot with GUI console 7

2.3 Internet based network system 8

2.4 Mobile robot with GUI console 9

2.5 Autonomous mobile robot with GUI console 10 2.6 Wi-fi surveillance robot with GUI console 11

3.1 Flowchart of project implementation 13

3.2 GUI console work flow 14

3.3 Initial design of GUI console 15

3.4 Mobile robot work flow 16

3.5 Initial design of mobile robot in CATIA P3 17

3.6 XBee module 17

3.7 Acrylic glass 18

3.8 Design of mobile robot base in CATIA P3 19

3.9 Servo motor 19

3.10 Servo motor working principle 20

3.11 Structure of the design circuit 21

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3.13 (a) DB-9 pin diagram and (b) RS-232 USB cable 25

3.14 Proteus hyperterminal 25

3.15 XBee connection for surveillance robot 26

3.16 X-CTU software 27

3.17 Interface XBee module with PIC microcontroller 27 3.18 (a) Top circuit, (b) Bottom circuit and (c) Flash LED circuit in

ARES 3D view 28

3.19 Wireless IP camera (DCS-930L) 29

3.20 First design of GUI console using visual basic 30

4.1 Simulation of battery level circuit 35

4.2 Simulation of 2.4ms PWM signal 36

4.3 Bottom circuit schematic diagram 37

4.4 Top circuit schematic diagram 38

4.5 Flash LED circuit schematic diagram 38

4.6 PCB layout of bottom circuit 39

4.7 PCB layout of top circuit 40

4.8 PCB layout of flash LED circuit 40

4.9 PCB fabrication process flow 41

4.10 Bottom circuit PCB 42

4.11 Top circuit PCB 42

4.12 Flash LED circuit PCB 43

4.13 Surveillance robot login form 51

4.14 GUI console for surveillance robot 52

4.15 Acrylic mobile robot base 59

4.16 Top view of surveillance robot 60

4.17 Front view of surveillance robot 61

4.18 Rear view of surveillance robot 61

4.19 Side view of surveillance robot 62

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

PIC - Programmable Integrated Circuit GUI - Graphical User Interface

MCU - Microcontroller Unit

DC - Direct Current

LED - Light Emitting Diode CCTV - Closed-Circuit Television

RF - Radio Frequency

IP - Internet Protocol

RC - Remote Control

GPS - Global Positioning System

CMOS - Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor CIF - Caltech Intermediate Form

PCB - Printed Circuit Board PWM - Pulse Width Modulation ADC - Analog-to-Digital Converter

RX - Receiver

TX - Transmitter

Li-Po - Lithium Polymer

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LIST OF APPENDICES

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A Mobile Robot Dimension 69

B XBEE Specifications 70

C Mobile Robot Base Dimension 71

D Servo Motor Specifications 72

E PIC 16F87X Datasheet 73

F L293D Motor Driver Datasheet 74

G D-Link DCS-930L Specifications 75

H Gantt Chart of Project Planning 76

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Overview

Surveillance system is a type of system that been used to observe specific activities or areas in term of managing, directing or protecting purpose [1]. By monitoring the certain activities or areas every time using the surveillance system, the users are able to know if something abnormal happens and further action can be taken after that.

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Surveillance system and robots are two different systems that carry out their own task respectively. The main inspiration for this project is to combine these two systems to produce a mobile robot equipped with a camera as an intelligence surveillance system. By using this Surveillance Robot, the image visualize can be more efficient compared to other typical surveillance system since its multiple viewing angle can be varied. This robot can be used as a medium for a monitoring system wirelessly by remotely-controlled by human via computer.

Figure 1.1: Overview of Project System

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1.2 Project Objectives

The aim of this project is to develop a surveillance mobile robot that able to visualize image on-site and being control by a computer using Graphical User Interface (GUI). This is carried out by the following objectives:

i. To develop a mobile robot equipped with camera for monitoring system using microcontroller unit (MCU).

ii. To create a Graphical User Interface (GUI) as a console for navigation control.

iii. To communicate the robot and computer using Zigbee wireless technology.

1.3 Scope of Project

In order to achieve the objectives of the project, the scopes of work are identified as:

i. Remotely-controlled mobile robot by computer

ii. Limitation of controlling range is between 50 to 100 meters indoor area iii. Working environment is flat surface

iv. Two DC motors are used for mobile robot movement v. One wireless camera with 180° degree of panning rotation vi. Flash LED to light up dark area

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1.4 Problem Statement

Currently, most of dangerous areas that should be monitored regularly often use the Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) system as the medium of monitoring operation. However, this CCTV used a static camera where it is difficult to transmit the image on-site effectively because of single viewing angle for each CCTV installed. Due to this problem, manpower is used to gives a direct view to get the desired image which is indirectly endanger to the safety of human being. Dangerous environment such as radiation, high temperature, flammable and etc will risk the human life. Their safety is not guaranteed if they are directly used to execute the monitoring task.

1.5 Outline of Report

CHAPTER 2

LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Overview

Literature review is a background studies that aims to review the critical points of recent information. All of information gained via internet, journals, conference papers and books is gathered to get a better idea and inspiration on this project.

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2.2 Surveillance Mobile Robot

Presently, an intelligence surveillance system is in high demand where the traditional ways of monitoring system which using CCTV resulting an ineffective image due to its static position[3]. Several projects have been done to overcome the problem and one of the basic idea is developing a surveillance mobile robot. Several related project is reviewed as follows.

2.2.1 Autonomous Explorer Mobile Robot

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The previous project by Csongor Márk Horváth and Róbert Tamás Fekete in their article "Development of Autonomous Explorer Mobile Robot for a Specific Environment" on 2011 [4] is using the same basic concept as the Surveillance Robot where a mobile robot is equipped with a camera but the robot is used for exploring purpose instead of monitoring. Figure 2.1 below shows the Autonomous Explorer Mobile Robot.

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In this project, the robot is controlled by ATMEL ATmega128 microcontroller. It is a fully automated type of robot where it consists of sonar sensor for obstacle avoiding and infrared sensor for a wall following function [4]. The mobile robot used a wireless camera in order to transmit the image captured on-site to a monitoring station. This robot does not use a communicating device such as RF transceiver to manually control by a computer. It only used a Wi-Fi network to connect the robot and computer. This mobile robot is fully depends on the Wi-Fi access point that determine its covering area which gives some disadvantages where this robot only able to operate in a Wi-Fi network environment.

2.2.2 Remote Controlled Surveillance Mobile Robot with IP Camera

The Remote Controlled Surveillance Mobile Robot with IP Camera is

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developed by Gilbert, Martin and Janssen in 2011 [3]. This manually-operated mobile robot using PIC 16F877A microcontroller and equipped with wireless IP Camera. As shown in Figure 2.2, this surveillance mobile robot also being control by user using a GUI console created on a computer. As a connecting device, this robot used an RF Transceiver. Other additional function such as battery level indicator also included in this project.